Gone Tomorrow (Sax Duo version)
Gone Tomorrow (Sax Duo version)
Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone & backing track
Duration: 12 minutes
(Originally for Alto Saxophone, French Horn & backing track)
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Commissioned by:-
Pivot Duo (Matthew Castner - Saxophone; Dakota Corbliss - French Horn)
University of South Carolina Spark Laboratory
Travis Bennett, Juan Berrios, Justin Drew, Samanda Engels, Shawn Hagen, Andrew Hutchens, Ian Jeffress, Jeffrey Leung, Anna Marshall, Vincent Morreale, Abigail Pack, Laurette Roddin, Benjamin Still, Maddy Tarantelli, Jack Thorpe, Dylan Ward
Gone Tomorrow - a response to discussion about climate change, specifically coastal erosion to parts of the east coast of the USA.
A challenging work for both soloists, this long-form piece goes through many fast-changing sections and moods
With increasingly dramatic and destructive weather – both in the immediate form of hurricanes, and through erosion from the rising ocean - homes are devastatingly lost to the sea, the shifting sands increasingly making the remaining properties unstable and extremely vulnerable. Yet on calmer days it can be easy to be drawn in by the beauty of the ocean & forget the bigger, darker picture. The collective feeling that we are not doing enough in response, leads to accelerating anxiety and a desire to step up, each in our own way.
Performance by Vincent Morreale (Horn) and Stephen Michaels (Alto Saxophone). DMA recital performance - University of Alabama, USA 5th March 2022
